The Truth About Watergate

A Tale of Extraordinary Lies & Liars

Nick Bryant (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

220 Seiten

2024
Trine Day (Verlag)
9781634244282 (ISBN)

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A delusion is a strong belief or conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary. The Watergate delusion, embraced by millions, is that swashbuckling Bob Woodward and the left confronted the malevolent Nixon administration as it cast a sinister pall over America and slayed it with the lance of truth, thereby saving democracy. But the actual evidence demonstrates that Watergate was not a shining example of democracy, and Bob Woodward’s place among the pantheon of journalistic immortals is a grift. One of the grand deceptions of Watergate is that Nixon’s enemies on the left razed his presidency, but it was actually his enemies on the right—the far right—who initially had the means, motive, and opportunity. And although Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein told numerous lies throughout their Watergate reporting, Woodward’s Big Lie was that he didn’t meet Alexander Haig until 1973. As The Truth About Watergate takes the reader on a guided tour of the extraordinary lies and liars of Watergate, its demonstrates that Woodward’s fabrication about Haig has seismic implications. If Woodward’s Big Lie about Haig had been exposed, then the synergistic mythologies of Bob Woodward and “Deep Throat” would have been shattered and swept away by gusts of veracity. The Washington Post has scorned prior Watergate revisionist books, like Silent Coup: The Removal of a President as a conspiracy theory, but The Truth About Watergate shows The Washington Post has fervent, utilitarian motives for banishing Silent Coup to the conspiracy theory ghetto.

Nick Bryant is an author who resides in New York City. His writing has recurrently focused on the plight of disadvantaged children in the United States, and he's been published in numerous national journals, including the Journal of Professional Ethics, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, and Journal of School Health. He is the co-author of America's Children: Triumph or Tragedy, addressing the medical and developmental problems of lower socioeconomic children in America.

PrologueChapter 1: Welcome to the JungleChapter 2: The Tricky Dick Double CrossChapter 3: The Tabernacle ChoirChapter 4: The PlumbersChapter 5: In the Company of MenChapter 6: The Boy WonderChapter 7: Honey TrapChapter 8: The Talented Mr. BailleyChapter 9: Triumph of the NilChapter 10: Gemstone 3.0 Morphs into WatergateChapter 11: Breaking and LoiteringChapter 12: Breaking and Loitering: The SequelChapter 13: Revenge of the KeyChapter 14: Pandora’s BoxThe Truth About Watergate © 2022 Nick Bryant6Chapter 15: The Burning ManChapter 16: The PlagueChapter 17: The Whole Bay of Pigs ThingChapter 18: Pay the PiperChapter 19: DeforestationChapter 20: The Pugilist at WrestChapter 21: The Long Good ByeChapter 22: The Berlin Wall CrumblesChapter 23: The Iceman ComethChapter 24: Balderdash Bob and Deep ThroatChapter 25: Balderdash Bob and Hot Carl ForeverChapter 26: Crypto Fascism Saves DemocracyChapter 27: Saturday Night FeverChapter 28: The Tale of the TapeChapter 29: Guilty!Epilogue

Erscheinungsdatum	06.04.2023
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Walterville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	254 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-13	9781634244282 / 9781634244282
Zustand	Neuware